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S.W.A.T. Team at world competition in Atlanta, GA.(652KB)

S.W.A.T. - Smithville Warriors Advancing Technology is a high school robotics team based out of Smithville, MO. S.W.A.T. is primarily composed of high school (grades 9 - 12) students, their parents, school faculty and staff, and other mentors. As a competing team in the FIRST Robotics Competition, each year we build a robot designed to compete in a game designed by FIRST. In addition to designing and constructing the robot, the S.W.A.T. team participates in fundraising, button/flyer designing, and other business-related ventures. We have been members of the FIRST Robotics Competition(FRC) since 2006. Each team that joins FIRST is given a number; we are the 1806th team.

History

S.W.A.T. Team at Chicago Regional in 2006(86KB)

Scott Vitek, an industrial technology teacher at the high school, decided to form a team to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition for the 2005/2006 school year. Back then, team #1806 was known by 'SCET', or 'Smithville Competitive Engineering Team.' SCET started generating interest in the high school, and went on to compete in the Chicago Regional.

S.W.A.T. Team at Kansas City Regional 2007(108KB)

After a promising first year, team #1806 decided to reinvent themselves. They switched from their previous acronym of SCET to a new one with more personality: Smithville Warriors Advancing Technology, or S.W.A.T. Through growing interest in the school, the team improved upon its initial rookie success in the 2007 Greater Kansas City Regional.

S.W.A.T. Team at Kansas City Regional(85KB)

The year 2008 was an exciting one for S.W.A.T. It was the team's third year of competing, and the team was ready to make the jump to being a major player in the FRC. The team felt that confident in its abilities, and added the Oklahoma City Regional to the Greater Kansas City Regional. The team won the Greater Kansas City Regional and the Oklahoma City Regional and traveled to the world competition in Atlanta, GA and placed 96th out of about 300 teams.

S.W.A.T. Team at Kansas City Regional(80KB)

The 2009 game was called Lunacy; the game was designed to simulate movement on the surface of the moon. Team #1806 attended the Greater Kansas City Regional and was ranked #1 after the qualification matches. S.W.A.T. was part of the winning alliance for the second year at the KC regional and qualified to attend the world championship in Atlanta, GA a second time. S.W.A.T. traveled to the St. Louis regional where they were defeated in the semifinals. At the championship in Atlanta S.W.A.T. made it to the quarter finals where they were defeated; but overall the team was ranked 9th out of 300 teams.